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mike-cardwell on May 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users wit...

Continue to set deleted=1, but also now just set name="DELETED" and email="DELETED@DELETED" at the same time?

You don't need to actually delete the row, just overwrite the information which you no longer have consent to store...

This is obvious isn't it?

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